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What is Hydroseeding?

Hydroseeding/Hydromulching: Have you ever seen green stuff sprayed on the side of the freeway, and a few weeks later you saw grass? If you have, that was hydroseeding.

Hydroseeding/Hydromulching is a process where mulch, seed, fertilizer, tackifier (glue) and soil amendments are mixed in a machine creating a slurry that is sprayed onto prepared/tilled soil. Hydroseeding enables seed to rapidly germinate and grow while the mulch keeps the soil and seed in place (limiting erosion and increasing seedling survival).

Benefits of hydroseeding include limiting erosion, shortening germination time (warmer temperatures in the mulch and seeds are pre-soaked) and improving seedling survival by providing a moisture retention blanket all while keeping everything on the seeded site.

Is Hydroseeding the right solution?

RESIDENTIAL BLUF: If you have a large site and time to allow the seed to establish, the answer is YES.
Selling a home and need grass now, the answer is NO (go with sod).

COMMERCIAL BLUF: If you have contract requirements regarding germination, need a rapid seeding and mulching solution, or must address a DENR or EPA concern, the answer is YES. If you need immediate established turf, the answer is NO (go with sod).

Residential: Hydroseeding is a cost saving and effective alternative to sod, especially on large sites (around 1/5th the cost). In 2024 sod costs are at around $.51 per SF and an additional $1.00 for installation totaling ~ $1.50 per SF. Hydroseeding a premium Bermuda will be around $ .25 per SF installed (depending on distance from our office). If you have the time/patience for turf establishment, which may take 1 season or more to fully establish, hydro seeding is a “no brainer” decision.

Commercial: Hydroseeding minimizes the potential for sheet erosion and allows seeding and mulching in a a single step (reducing the time required for immediate groundcover). Mulch options offer customers alternatives to blown straw, RECPs, truckloads of topsoil, while shortening installation times and reducing the potential for DENR or EPA citations. The larger the site, the lower the per SF or per Acre fee’s.

The “Seeding Season” adds a scheduling consideration. Sod can be installed year round while hydroseeding is seasonally dependent. Warm Season turfs (Bermuda, Carpetgrass, Bahia, and Centipede) are limited to Mar-Sep. Cool Season Seeding is limited to Sep-Dec. Commercial projects that include temporary and permanent seeding requirements can have dormant seeding as an option if a single seeding installation is required.

Hydroseeding -Native Seeds

Hydroseeding enables the uniform spreading of small seeds.

Spreading seed uniformly appears to be a “what’s the challenge” question.

Warm Season and native seeds are typically extremely small… and EXPENSIVE. Centipede has around 450,000 seeds per pound, Bermuda is at around 2 million seeds – imagine 4-20 seeds per a grain of sand.

Premium Bermuda seed starts at around $30/#, Centipede is ~$50/# and both are applied at 1-2lbs per 1,000 SF (~50 to 100lbs/Acre).

“Native” seed mixes can cost $270 (or more) per pound with seeding rates of 4lbs per acre (or lower). These low rates can only be uniformly applied with a hydroseeder.

COMMERCIAL: Why should you use us?

Sheet erosion is the largest contamination to water globally. As a general contractor both the EPA and DENR (Department of Environmental Natural Resources) look at projects and allegations of water contamination. We can help you address EPA or DENR citations, more importantly we can help you get ground cover to eliminate complaints before they start. A Stop Work Order is bad… it’s worse when daily fines are added, we can help.

Why hydroseed?

Instant Ground Cover; minimize sheet erosion and EPA or DNR Notices or Stop Work Orders.

$ Savings

Hydroseeding provides immediate ground cover and leads to permanent ground at a fraction of the cost of other seeding techniques.

Hydroseeding vs Other

We can seed and use RECPs or Straw; however, hydroseeding will provide a better final product at a comparable cost while lowering sediment in water supplies.

Safety

We take safety seriously, with 2 decades in business we have had no OSHA citations or time loss due to safety injuries.

Certs and Qual’s:

IAHP CHP: (Certified Hydroseeding Professional)
NC DoT: Prequalified seeding and mulching prime and subcontractor.

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